One Click LCA?

Hi Maria, I was just talking with someone on Thornton Tomasetti's sustainability team who's using it. They had some reservations, though. Email me separately if you want me to put you in touch with them directly for a download. 

Hi all, I'd like to resurrect this thread, as I didn't see many comments. Two years later, what is people's experience with OneClick LCA?  Thanks for any you want to share. 

Hi Margaret,  We've just begun using One-Click.  So far so good.  We were looking for a tool that integrates well with Revit (like Tally does), is recognized as compliant for Whole Building LCA by USGBC and ILFI (Tally, Athena, and One Click), and also had a "shoebox" feature.  One Click has that shoebox feature, and I that tipped the scales for us.  Shoebox, meaning you can get a reasonable embodied carbon baseline for a project at a pre-design stage without a ton of inputs, and can use that early model to test strategies to reduce embodied carbon.  One Click might be the right tool for our architectural teams and for LEED documentation, but may not be the right tool for our structural engineering group. We're just signing the SE2050 and may find better tools for our structural engineers. I will report back later in the year as we make more progress with One Click, et al, and I too am interested in others' feedback on the tool. 

This is good feedback - we will be diving into these analyses as well.  When I heard that KieranTimberlake 'gifted' Tally to Building Transparency, I thought the software was going to be open source, but I see there is still a license fee structure. Does anyone have any insight into this? https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/kierantimberlake-transfers-tally-app-to-building-transparency_o

Hi Margaret, I think it is expensive for what it does (I don't have costs of other products though) and lots of the features I like are in the Expert license. I don't think the software itself is that user friendly but you get used to the quirks and the way you have to input information. I've not been that convinced by the Carbon Designer (the shoebox tool Greg mentioned) because the assumptions it uses are pretty unrealistic in the work I'm used to. A big positive is that their staff are really responsive and have addressed the issues I've had. They won't share the calculations behind some of their created data which you will rely upon but that that is getting into the nitty gritty and their numbers look good enough. I like the massive EPD database and the ability to compare them and I like the Carbon Heros and Plausibility Checker. It also presents the outputs well. I haven't had a good experience with the Revit plug-in so gave up on that a year ago and don't know if it has been updated.  We still use a spreadsheet for most things which suits the way we work and is more flexible than One Click. We couldn't get along with Tally several years ago because it wasn't flexible enough and we weren't working in enough detail in Revit at the time to make it work for us. Things might have changed though.

Building Transparency is working on a new version of Tally called TallyCAT with Perkins and Will that will be free to the public. I'm not sure that they have set a release date yet.     Tally LCA Software to Include Product-Specific Data | BuildingGreen